Первые впечатления First Impressions

This is our first trip to Turkey. I will say right away that we expected more from Turkey. We went with Pegasus, the air conditioners did not pull out at +40, the guide Mikhail was mournfully boring. After reading the reviews about the hotel, we were ready for the fact that they would begin to settle in the Beldiana Park Hotel. And so it turned out. Even $20 did not want to resolve the situation. The room that was offered first was just a nightmare - crumbling plaster, terrible furniture, curtains in divorces, as if they washed the floors. We turned around, picked up the suitcase and waited at the hotel for the Pegasus guide. After spending an hour at the reception, bargaining and talking with the porter, they bargained for one night in a clean Park room and Internet and a safe for free + the best room to choose from. We spent the night, at 12 noon we were given 2 keys to the rooms, we chose a 311-large 3-bed room with a view of the mountains, the road below did not bother us. The room is quite clean and decent. They knocked at lunch every day, which was extremely inconvenient - just fall asleep, they burst. While cleaning created a flurry of cleaning activity but overall ok. The smell of the hotel was annoying - all the staff and all the rooms smelled of cheap perfume, it turned out that they had such a freshener. This survived - the room was quickly ventilated after cleaning. The pool was clean, but the mattresses on the sunbeds made me sick personally, just black. The same is true on the beach. Never lay there. The waiters were nimble - they cleaned the dishes instantly, but they didn’t learn how to wipe the tables, they adapted, they wiped them themselves. Drinks at the bar are not drinkable. White wine even more or less. Beer is also quite edible and light, well quenches thirst. The water is tasteless in the bar, we bought drinking 1.5 liters on the street for 1 dollar. The food in the first days seemed like a nightmare - they were just hungry, that you can’t take it, it’s impossible. But then they adapted, meat, rice (for the first 3 days there was barely any potatoes), potatoes, and vegetables not in salads, edible. Very tasty sweets. Watermelon 3 times a day like grass. 2 times gave melons and apples. Bryndza cheese is very sour and salty, but in recent days they have either brought fresh cheese - it just melted in your mouth. Puree soups are quite tasty if you add spices. Before lunch a couple of times perepal pizza-delicious, but quickly rake. There is almost no beach - in the photo, divide it into three parts and here is 1/3 floor of the beach of Beldiana-sunbeds stand close, everyone sits on each other's heads. We went swimming to the rock (leave the hotel and turn left for 30 minutes), along the way we bought cold water and fruits (figs-3 dollars, peaches-2, melon-2.5, ice cream-1 dollar, Turkish delight-5-8 dollars per kg ). There is very clean warm awesome water (the sea is very salty, the first days it ate out the eyes) and there is almost no one.
The Turks in the shops are very arrogant and annoying, like flies. In Beldian, they process it on the beach so that they go for leather and furs to the Lederlend factory. DON'T FOLLOW! They will sell what is not needed, a specific scam. The assortment is disgusting, the prices are exorbitantly high. Although prices may be acceptable for residents of large metropolitan areas. They barely got away, they sold a fur coat, we didn’t even understand how it happened, but offered only a free trip to see the goods. The fur coat with the scandal managed to be returned to the trail. the day the veil fell from my eyes. But in general they take a deposit and do not return in case of refusal. We then avoided all the shops.
At the tour operator, tour tickets are expensive, they intimidate them so that they don’t take excursions on the street. It's all nonsense. We took a tour on a yacht 2 times cheaper, I liked everything very much. At the exit of the hotel to the left 20 m-Hay Tour and there the Georgian Amiran, treated him with wine, gave frozen water with him to everyone. Next to him, grandfather crushes an orange cold fresh juice for $ 1 - very tasty, especially after the hotel Jupi.

The mountains are very beautiful and the sea is just fabulous. For this, we forgave all Beldians, but there was no more desire to rest there.